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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

Prior to joining Akamai, she held a variety of technology positions including in network administration, system administration, database administration, and software implementation at Fleet Financial and Digitas. In her own words: She offered advice in three areas: 1.

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Good scientists and database administrators guide databases by specifying the type and structure of each field. But increasingly aggressive companies are figuring out how to integrate their homegrown information with third-party data and the vast seas of personalized information floating on the internet.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators. Scaling a relational database while maintaining fault tolerance, performance, and blast radius size (the impact of a failure) has been a persistent challenge for administrators.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators. Scaling a relational database while maintaining fault tolerance, performance, and blast radius size (the impact of a failure) has been a persistent challenge for administrators.

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Black CIO hopefuls look to level up

CIO Business Intelligence

But the rise of the Internet and the emergence of IT as a business enabler lured Anderson into tech. And so, after working briefly in two non-tech positions (where he still wound up doing some database administration and code creation), Anderson officially moved into IT. The job had changed,” he says.

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Are You Agile Enough for Polyglot Programming?

CTOvision

Your database administrators, who know SQL, will feel right at home with JSON, and pick it up in a heartbeat. It provides more flexibility and it fits the perfectly with RESTful architecture and Internet at scale. Your older COBOL programmers may know C, which is still the most popular language on the planet.

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